Ar-pi-uck-i

Ar-pi-uck-i (1760-1860), also known as Sam Jones, was a Seminole-Muscogee war leader during the Second Seminole War.

Biography
Ar-pi-uck-i was born in present-day Georgia in 1760, and he belonged to the Muscogee tribe. He was opposed to the 1832 treaty which would relocate the Seminole from Florida to the Indian Territory, and he became a Seminole war leader during the Second Seminole War. He defeated the US Army at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee in 1833, Jupiter Inlet in 1838, and the Battle of Pine Island Ridge later that year. In 1841, he cocupied the region to the north of the Kissimee River at the eastern border of Lake Okeechobee, and he moved to the Big Cypress Swamp after the Third Seminole War of 1855-1858. He died in 1860.